66 66 66 also Sir tories for Queen Elizabeth, "his lodging In his interesting note Mc. mentions that was at Limehouse." There "he sat among Raleigh stayed at Blackwall. He his maps and instruments," and his dwelling quotes the words of a Poplar antiquary, was at this time a resort of voyagers and writing nearly seventy years ago," with venturers; Frobisher and Davis were part-reference to an ancient house near Globe ners in his researches, and Raleigh, we may Stairs and opposite the Artichoke Tavern, be sure, the aptest of learners." There is a which, according to tradition, was suclocal point of significance in the leading cessively occupied by Sebastian Cabot and journal's reminder that the royal charter Sir Walter." The antiquary's description of 1578 granted to Sir Humphrey Gilbert, of the building, which follows, quite agrees Raleigh's half-brother (under whom Raleigh with the appearance of a picturesque old served against the Spaniards in the Low tenement of which I possess a view taken in Countries in 1577, and with whom he sailed 1873. It is described on the back as in the first and less unfortunate expedition Walter Raleigh's House, Blackwall.' I will to Newfoundland), descended as by in- add that it has two gables of wooden boardheritance to the younger man whom Gilbert ing, and two lower stories of lath and plaster. helped to form. On March 25, 1584-a Each projecting story is supported by pregnant date in the history of the New massive carved brackets, those above having World and the Old-Walter Raleigh, now grotesque heads on them. I should think in the first stages of his greatness and high it was a good deal later than the time of in favour with Queen Elizabeth, obtained Raleigh. Can any one give me the precise a new charter of discovery and colonization address of this house, which in all probability in place of the old. He was to send many was destroyed before 1880 ? more expeditions to Virginia before his fortunes fell, to lose all, and still to hope. Like the Scottish hero of a later day, he deemed that He either fears his fate too much, Who dares not put it to the touch For Sir Walter Raleigh, whatever his faults There are few who will dissent from Sir Sidney Lee's considered judgment that Raleigh, as an explorer no less than in his numberless other spheres of activity, was the victim of great ideas and great speculations boyond his power to bring to fruition : Judged, however, by the influence of his work on the future, his endeavours in the fields of exploration and colonization towered above the rest of his achievement, and more rightly than any other Englishman may he be hailed as the prophet and pioneer of the British Empire." And so, sooner or later, we shall see Sir Walter Raleigh high on that Roll of Honour in enduring bronze (or gun-metal ?) which the London County Council design to upraise &t Ratcliff Cross ere King Edward's Memorial Park at Shadwell-close bycomes into being, at the instance of our Sailor King. Mc. PHILIP NORMAN. HENRY I.: A GLOUCESTER CHARTER. (12 S. iv. 149, 223, 279.) MAY I express my regret that for a considerable period' N. & Q.' has been a sealed volume to me? Hence I was unaware of MR. SWYNNERTON's note on the (to me familiar) Henry I. (1127) charter, which I copied myself two or three years back, and was enabled to date to the above year, to which I think it certainly belongs, for the reason that its more perfect duplicate occurs in the Cambridge MS. of William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum,' dated "ab Incarnatione Domini M°C°XX°VII° (apud Wintoniam). The editor (W. H. Hart) of the 'Hist. et Cart. S. Petri Glouc. has treated the charter even more badly than MR. SWYNNERTON describes, for, in addition to omitting the highly important witnesses, he has miswritten 66 Willelmus for Gislebertus (de Mineriis*), and printed "affuerunt" for affiuerunt as to Adam de Port and William Fitz Otho-a ruinous change (cf. also "monachos for monachis). So much for the date; but is there any reason why the modern spelling of Mynors should be adopted for magnates who certainly never * Les Minières, Department of Eure in Normandy. so wrote their name ? Surely, Miners is preferable. With regard to Henry's charter addressed to Bishop Sampson of Worcester, quoted from the same cartulary (i. 235), there is another important variety of this, too, in the Cambridge MS. Instead of ending with the clause et concedo eis escambium de horto monachorum in quo turris mea sedet, sicut Walterus Vicecomes de Gloucestria eis liberavit," it has " teste Girmundo abbate Winchelcumbæ et Rogerio de Gloecestra et Hugone Parvo." Now this important change, I hold, at once affects the date of this charter likewise; for here we have Roger (doubtless dying) signing his gift near Falaise (1106) in the presence of two important witnesses the Abbot of Winchcombe (1095-1122), and Hugh Little, one of his superior Norman tenants in Gloucestershire-about whom I could say more. Further, the MS. cited gives the following interesting passage :: "Is, in obsidione Fallesi telo arcubalista graviter vulneratus in capite, donavit ecclesiæ 8. Petri de Gloecestra manerium quod appellatur Culna S. Andreae, et in hoc assensum et concessionem Regis, qui statim ad se videndum venerat, impetravit, ita quod manum ipsius cum eam hujus rei gratia deoscularetur, frontis sanguine cruentavit." " " " Matildis Regine+ Wald(rici) Cancellar'+(made Bishop of Laon, Nov. 1106, killed Ap. 25, 1112). Episcopi Dunelmensis+(i.e., R. Flambard). Roberti Episcopi Lincol' + Ricardi de Reveis+(i.e., R. de Reviers, Roberti Comitis de Mellent+ Mr. Round has shown (Feudal England,' 481) that the last known appearance of Waldric the Chancellor occurs in a Rouen charter of November, 1106. The above, unfortunately, is not from the original deed itself. It is sufficient, however, to bring Roger's decease and the King's "Confirmatio " very close together. Roger de Gloucester Was brother to Herbert (who predeceased him), and cousin to Walter the Sheriff. His transactions include one with Serlo (d. 1104), the Abbot of St. Peter's (Glos.), by which he took over certain land in Westbury-on-Severn in fee (but without tithe of water or woodland) from the monks, and gave in exchange (in alms) Sandhurst and Atteley (i.e., Hatherley), and land belonging to Ulfketil. With the claim of De Miners, with the Editor's leave, I will deal under a fresh These authorities were duly cited by Bishop Stubbs in his notes to William of Malmes-heading. bury's Gesta Regum Anglorum,' ii. 521-2 (Rolls Series). I could adduce others still, but for respect to the space of N. & Q.' This, therefore, places the King's charter to the Bishop of Worcester in the year 1106 and (?) the month of September. What, then, are we to make of the statement in the Gloucester Cartulary,' i. 69, that the grant was made while the abbacy was vacant at Serlo's death (i.e., 1104) ? The latter is clearly a monkish mistake. I shall now produce the "Confirmatio by the King of Roger's gift of the manor of Coln with its highly important array of witnesses-by which I venture to date it 1106-7, probably at Gloucester: Henricus, dux Anglie, Sampsoni episcopo Wigorniensi et Waltero Vicecomiti de Glocestra, &c., salutem. Notum sit vobis quod dedi et concessi manerium de Culna ecclesiæ S. Petri de Glocestra ad communem victum monachorum sicut Rogerius de Glocestra eis dedit et concessit et sicut melius tenuit pro anima mea et uxoris meme et pro animabus antecessorum meorum et concedo eis escambium orti monachorum in quo turris * Called Coln Rogers to-day. ST. CLAIR BADDELEY. The full text of the notification ('Gloucester Cartulary,' Rolls Ser., No. CXLII.), printed by MR. SWYNNERTON at iv. 280, shows, I think, that he has misunderstood this document. The Cartulary heading-" Culna Rogerii "-is misleading, as it applies only to the first part; the second part, beginning "et concedo," is the confirmation of a different transaction. Thus the King confirms: 1. The grant of Coln by Roger de Glou It is recorded in the List of Donations MR. SWYNNERTON is very likely right in (i. 59): De Ablode et Paygrave. Henricus rex senior dedit Deo et Sancto Petro Gloucestriæ et monachis ejusdem loci Ablode, et gravam de Bertona quæ vocatur Paygrave in escambium pro placea ubi nunc turris stat Gloucestriæ, ubi quondam fuit hortus monachorum anno regni regis Henrici ejusdem nono, tempore domni Petri abbatis. The printed text puts a comma after abbatis, and continues, "de sex sellionibus retro curiam de Ablode," which is unintelligible. I have no doubt that this clause was intended as a heading for the remainder of the paragraph, which records the gift of "sex selliones terræ retro curiam de Ablode " by Ralf de Wylintone and his wife. Although the eccentric punctuation appears to connect the date with the existence of the garden, we may assume that it was the grant in exchange therefor which took place in 9 Hen. I. ; yet the editor (i. 318) assigns the wide date-limits 11001112 to the corresponding writ (No. ccxci.): — 66 The succeeding charter (CCXCII.) is wrongly headed Confirmatio ejusdem." It has nothing to do with the King's grant, being a confirmation by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, of a grant by Richard fitz Neel, and is a duplicate of No. DLXXII., confirming DLXXI. (ii. 89). To revert to the List of Donations: the grant of Coln is recorded thus (i. 69) :— De Culna Rogeri. Anno Domini millesimo centesimo quinto, Rogerus de Gloucestria miles, apud Waleyson graviter vulneratus, dedit monachis Gloucestria pro anima sua in montanis Culnam quæ vocatur Culna Rogeri, rege Henrico confirmante, abbatia vacante per mortem Serlonis abbatis. What is the meaning of "in montanis Can montanis be a wrong extension of some part of morior ?. ? In the List of Donors we have consecutive entries (i. 123):— "Rogerus de Gloucestria dedit Culnam Rogeri, "Walterus vicecomes liberavit nobis Abbelode per præceptum Henrici regis pro excambia,” It is quite clear that Roger's gift of Coln had nothing to do with the monks' garden. Or the other hand, if the grant of Ablode and Paygrave Wood were made in 1109, (It holding that No. CXLII. passed at the same time as the charter to the canons of St. Oswald in Round's Ancient Charters' (No. 3). is worth noting that the canons also had, or claimed, rights in Ablode, a dispute between the two houses about the tithes of Abbelode," and other matters, being settled in 1218-i. 25.) How untrustworthy is the Cartulary text, as printed, may be seen by comparing the following charter, No. CXLIII., with the text printed by MR. SWYNNERTON from the original charter (12 S. iv. 149). In the Cartulary this valuable record is rendered unintelligible by reading "Willelmus" instead of Gislebertus where the original has "q'd Gis't' versus eos & Abbate' suum clamabat." Angl' is extended as Angliæ instead of Anglorum; monachis is given as "monachos"; and there are minor errors. G. H. WHITE. 23 Weighton Road, Anerley, S.E. WAR SLANG: REGIMENTAL NICKNAMES (12 S. iv. 271, 306, 333).-As explained in a recently published book entitled 'Behind the Barrage,' by Mr. George Goodchild, scrounge appears to be used in a much broader sense than that conveyed by my friend MR. SPARKE'S explanation (iv. 307). Mr. Goodchild, in the book referred to, deals with the life and work of a gunner, and as an officer in a heavy battery he had ample opportunity of acquiring first-hand knowledge. His book is one of the most realistic specimens of war literature that it has been my pleasure to read. Mr. Goodchild, on p. 94, writing of the various duties performed by the signalling party of which he was in charge, says :— "In the category of odd jobs' came scrounging.' 'Scrounging is eloquent armyese-it covers pilfering, commandeering, 'pinching,' and many other familiar terms. You may scrounge for rations, kit, pay, or leave. Signallers are experts at it, and they usually scrounge for wire. Scrounging for wire is legitimized by the War Office, and called by the gentler name of 'salving.' We were informed it was our duty to economize in the cost of the war by salving the wire that was disconnected by shell fire, or which had first to tap it' on the line with a field teleappeared to be serving no useful purpose. We phone, and if we got no response the wire was ours....We made 'scrounging' a daily affair, and not infrequently scrounged' wire that was not disconnected and belonged to other batteries." Further on he writes: They [the men] scrounged round for a nice shell-hole, rigged a bit of tarpaulin over it, and called it billets.'" Eyewash. I have not seen this word noted in your columns. It is apparently used to denote anything that is exaggerated or calculated to deceive or mislead. Any portion of an official document, or a list of regulations, which is not of vital importance, is designated eyewash." So also are complimentary remarks, either either true or otherwise. H. TAPLEY-SOPER. 66 Exeter City Library. A few evenings ago I was walking to the railway station with an Australian soldier on leave from France. In the semi-darkness we met two Tommies, one of whom saluted my companion with "Good-night, Digger." My friend said that Digger was the name he had always heard in France applied to Australians, and that " "Bill Jim," used in some Australian papers, was quite unJ. R. THORNE. familiar to him. As some old regimental nicknames are printed by MR. SPARKE at the second reference, it is worth while to draw attention to 9 S. v. 104, 161, 224, 263, 377, 438. For mottoes see ibid., p. 389. In sending another list of war words may I be permitted to point out that the spelling of the words in this and the first list is that given by the Tommies in France, and not mine? I hope that SIR RICHARD TEMPLE will continue to give derivations of any Nicknames and mottces are given in Indian words in this list, and that other John S. Farmer's 'Regimental Records correspondents will add to it and explain of the British Army,' 1901; and in 'Regiany obscure words therein. Though some mental Nicknames and Traditions of the of the words may not be new, as clink" British Army,' published by Gale & Polden, and "chink," they have lain in obscurity, 3rd ed., 1891; 4th ed., 1915. and have only come into common usage during the War and where soldiers do congregate. 66 No bonne.-No good; useless. Windy.-Frightened; nervous. Drum-up.- I've some sugar. If you get tea and hot water we'll have a 'drum-up.' Put your skates on. Get clear, to evade duty. Crawling, creeping, squaring.-Buying favours. Moosh.-Guard-room. Chewing the fat.-Fault-finding. Sweating. Getting warm, probably from the game of hide-and-seek. Getting excited. Shot up the back.-Put hors de combat by some saily. Found out. Put dots on one.-To bore or tire. Care should, I think, be taken to distinguish the battalions in linked-battalion regiments. Notably nicknames derived from regimental numbers are not applicable to both battalions; e.g., The Three Tens (30th Regiment) is not applicable to "The Lily-Whites" (59th Regiment), though these two regiments are the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the East Lancashire Regiment. Although the Territorial titles were given as long ago as 1881, I believe that many of the regiofficially, to their old numbers. battalions cling to-day, ments or ROBERT PIERPOINT. un LINES UNDER A CRUCIFIX (12 S. iv. 297). — There seems to be little doubt, from the respective passages transcribed from Weever and Fynes Moryson by PROF. BENSLY, that the two seventeenth-century writers had, consciously or unconsciously, a common original. The date of that (obviously preReformation) is not determined. There is a rare old book in Scots orthography-published in English seventeen years earlier than Weever's-which it will not be unthan Moryson's and thirty-one years earlier interesting to cite here for the sake of some verses which it contains, in the nature of a doctrinal descant. The stout little volume in question (444 pp. plus 20) is entitled King James the Saxt. | Be Maister Jhone Hamil-screen inscriptions cited by PROF. BENSLY. ton Doctor in Theologie. At Louvan | Im; The eight lines with which the Scotsman printed be Laurence Kellam | Anno Dom. MDC." leads off are to all intents and purposes & This is the priest and scholar John Hamilton, close translation of active in the cause of Queen Mary Stuart and in the opposition to Henry of Navarre, who lived the hunted life usual to recusants, and died in prison in 1609. Following the last section of the book, entitled 'A Catalogue of Heresies,' we come upon a poem Composit be L.F.S.E.B.C.P.," and therefore not Hamilton's own. It is headed : 66 46 The Trew Use of the Crucifix: with a detection of...lies (1) That the crucifix and vther Images of Christs [sic] and of his Saincts and Angels are Idols; (2) That the Catholiks adoris thame for their God." Below is a woodcut of a Calvary, with this In passing be the Crucifix Nocht it, bot Christ whome it presents, For God is he whome it raports; Adore what thow beholdis in it: Caluin dou say that we transgres That he ane fals God is? as thay For nather stok nor stone wil we Give prayse to Christ (I say, 3e guid and constant catholiks In hymnes and cantiques ay), His woundis, his forme, his passion, So it ends, though there is more of it than is here given. At the bottom are the string of difficult initials already quoted, and a charming colophon : "Excuse, guid reider, the erreurs committit in ye preting : Considder the difficultie to prent our langage in a strage countrey. God Keip 30w! Effigiem Christi dum transis semper honora, DESSIN'S HOTEL, CALAIS (12 S. iv. 187, 248). The following extracts from old guide-books, &c., give some information :— "The most superb inn is the hotel formerly the celebrated Dessin's, Rue Royale. The apartments are elegant and the accommodation every thing that can be wished; but the charge is proportionable, and will not suit every pocket."A New Picture of Paris,' by Edward Planta, 15th ed., London, 1827, p. 24, s.v. Calais Inns. (Apparently "formerly refers to Dessin, the original innkeeper.) "At Dessin's Hotel, is still shown a room in which it is said Sterne wrote part of his Sentimental Journey.' Over the door is the following inscription, This is Sterne's Room.'”—Ibid., p. 30. "The inns of Calais are excellent. The Hôtel Dessin is mentioned by Sterne in his 'Sentimental Journey.' King George IV slept here on his way to Hanover, in 1823, as did the Duke of Northumberland, when proceeding to Rheims as the representative of his Britannic Majesty at the Coronation of King Charles X. It is the finest house in Calais, and presents every comfort that travellers can desire, including baths, a theatre, music, and a fine garden."- - Galignani's Traveller's Guide through France,' 9th ed., Paris, 1828, p. 631. "The far-famed inn, Desseins, still exists, and with very superior accommodations [sic], for which the guests must pay, but the charges are not unreasonable. It is situated in the Rue Royale, where, in imitation of Dover, a small foot-path of flat stones is placed, to the astonishment of all France, such a phenomenon having scarcely elsewhere obtruded itself." -The New Picture of Paris,' by Peter Hervé, Esq., and M. Galignani, 4th ed., London, 1829, p. 25. . In Bradshaw's.... Continental Railway ....Guide' of November, 1864, p. 562, among the advertisements is one of the "Hotel Dessein.-L. Dessein, the Proprietor, has the honour to inform his numerous patrons, No one can reasonably doubt that the and travellers in general, that since the 1st of maker of this rough serviceable rhyme, ferred to the Hotel Quillac, which has been entirely January, 1861, his establishment has been transpossibly a fellow exile of Hamilton's at newly done-up, and which has taken the name of Louvain, was familiar with the old rood-Hotel Dessein.' The premises of the old Hotel |